skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A Redditor notices this. She knows that in a month's time, the hedge-fund will have to buy 200 cows, and there are only 100 available.

This is a common misconception, but fundamentally wrong. Every short sell has an equal but opposite buy. Therefore every share shorted creates a new synthetic long share. Alice owns 100 shares. Bob borrows 100 shares from Alice, then short sells them to Chuck. There are now 200 shares long available to buy back- 100 owned by Alice and 100 by Chuck.

Therefore it's easily possible for short interest to be well over 100% of the float. There's no upper limit, it could literally be 10,000% of float. Shares sold short, can then be re-borrowed for new short sellers in an arbitrarily long chain. It's the same way that fractional reserve banking creates money out of thin air. It starts with a small set of "hard assets", then lends, say 90%, of them out to other banks. Those banks then lend out 90% to other banks. And so on, until the system has 10 times the money supply it started with.

Now, the reason that high short interest may result in a short squeeze is because usually some percent of longs at any given time tend to be long-term investors who are unlikely to sell. If, say 66% of investors are long-term holders, then short-interest above 50% could create a squeeze. If float's a million shares, then they'll be 1.5 million shares long and 500 thousand shares held short. But 1 million of those shares will be held by long-term investors. Therefore there won't be enough immediate buyers if all 500 thousand short sellers liquidate in a short period.

But... With Gamestop this logic makes no sense. At $300 per share, no one is a long-term investor. Nobody is buying or even holding at that price because they think the company is worth $10 billion (more than five times higher than its 2007 peak). Since there are always more shares held long than short, and since every share held long is held in anticipation of a short squeeze event, then even in the event of a massive unwind there will still be more sellers than buyers, and the price will fall, not rise. In fact during this whole price runup, short interest has actually increased. So clearly it's not short squeeze driving the melt-up.

The only reason Gamestop is going up is because of Tulip-mania. It's a classic bubble. Some early people on the hype train reaped eye-popping gains as more jumped on and bid up the price. That attracted even more attention, more buyers, and higher price. Like any classic bubble it requires an ever-widening net of greedy but foolish patsies to jump in at the bottom of the pyramid.
they should address these issues with significant OO syntax changes. let's call it python 4.
I mean...

Do we know if anyone actually complain to the SEC? I know they put out a statement they are monitoring it, but it's rather hard to miss, especially when noticing weird market trends is literally your job, unless they've said something otherwise it seems likely they did that on their own initiative. Especially when congress members (i.e. your bosses) have been putting out various statements about it...

If there was a complaint there are also lots of other options than hedge funds... banks, mutual funds, pension funds, etc...
You seem to be equating "is moral" with "moves prices towards the fundamental value of the underlying asset", which is an interesting position to take.

That being said, if you're worried about pushing prices away from fundamental value, how about negative crude prices?
None of that is an argument for requiring an id to vote though, it's just things you think it would be ridiculous to go without.

If someone has registered and voted in the past and has an expired id, should they be excluded from voting if they don't renew in time? Even though registration is already a sufficient barrier to fraud?
Yeah, I think the anger is a device for keeping each other from selling, but has nothing to do with how this situation arose.
> The licence to attend provided by Fisher’s approach feels liberating – particularly for millennials whose inability to imagine alternatives to neoliberalism arises in part from their having never known anything else. Fisher’s writing may resonate with those who came of age in the thick of capitalist realism, and who, unlike Fisher’s generation, have no memory of social democracy, precisely because it theorises a loss they can’t remember or measure, but which they’ve nevertheless inherited.

This kind of reminds me of a concept I recall from The Great Transformation by Polanyi: that introduction of the modern market to societies elicited quite a bit of opposition from the first generations that experienced it, since they understood what they were losing because they remembered it. Later generations couldn't muster the same energy because they didn't know the loss.
It didn't get the tagging right at all. On my bookmarks I somehow ended up with hundreds of tags in total, making tags effectively useless. I made very rough tool to just bulk delete delicious tags. Tags were useful but a pain to manage
If you're willing to buy the narrative that the experiment is "necessary for science" without questioning it, in the moment, then it's not an independent issue. They are obediently believing the authority figure without questioning the morality.

No, if we were to do the experiment in modern terms, you would place an actor in the chair and have a professor instruct their student that they are experimenting with correcting racist behavior out of the subject in a humane way. Would a liberal student reject this sort of experiment in 2020?

The Nazis were simply Germans. They were just like you and me. Many of their grandkids and great grandkids are still around. They're not any different.

Humans are dangerous when we start thinking in groups instead of as individuals. When we see ourselves as part of one group but see another group as particularly heinous, we become quite tribal and primitive.
>If I run an email service and find that a user is running a pump-and-dump scam through it, do you really think I shouldn't be able to shut down their account?

Yeah, I kinda think the SEC should be in charge of whether you're doing a pump-and-dump or not.
There is no pump and dump scheme that haven't been allowed by the hedge funds for decades.
Idk, it kind of sounds plausible to me. I don't see the Wallstreet bets sub reddit starting a revolution, protests or suddenly running for office to enact change. Do you?
So, that's still focusing on features. If we're talking about it from a paradigmatic perspective, instead, then I would argue that the prototypical idea behind object-oriented design is indeed encapsulation.

It's true that this is not a distinguishing feature. I don't see that as problematic, it's just how things work. Object-oriented programming, like any paradigm, evolved over time, as people built languages with new ideas, and then spent time figuring out how best to make use of them. And there's no rule saying that nobody is allowed to subsequently adopt and adapt a useful idea in other domains. Fuzzy boundaries are part of the natural order, and that is a good thing.

But, if you go back and read the seminal papers, it's clear that the common thread is encapsulation, every bit as much as referential transparency is the core idea that unites all the seminal work in functional programming. The idea was that programs would be decomposed into modules that were empowered to make their own decisions about what code to execute in response to some instruction. And that this was supposed to liberate the programmer from needing to micro-manage a bunch of state manipulation. Not by eliminating state, as is the ideal in FP, but by delegating the responsibility to manage it.

This is why the concept of Beans bothers me. A Bean is a stateful object that throws its state into your face, and forces you to directly manage it. That sort of approach directly contradicts what OOP was originally supposed to be trying to accomplish. For my part, I am convinced that the bulk of the backlash against OOP is really a response to the consequences of that sort of approach having become orthodox in OOP. Which is deeply ironic, because this is an approach that enshrines the very kinds of practices that the paradigm originally sought to eliminate.
This explains it

https://i.redd.it/9micoqswusd61.gif

The “short interest” is very factual and if you are not able to corroborate that on your own someone else will have to chime in
We clearly should not be doing this. This is the slippery slope.
Maybe the overall takeaway is that most programmers are bad.
Federal Judge William Alsup to Retire After Biden Replaces Trump
Albendazole is a large-volume generic, the manufacturer will sit somewhere in India or China. The stuff already has FDA registration since you can buy it in the US (although at wildly inflated prices).

Here's Boots, the UK pharmacy chain, selling a 4-pill course of the closely related mebendazole for 8 pounds: https://www.boots.com/boots-pharmaceuticals-threadworm-table...

8 pounds. For 4 pills. With markup for the pharmacy. In Britain, in a first-world regulatory environment.

Meanwhile here we see people defend the intolerable state of US healthcare. Why is that?
I think that's the point: requiring the user to explicitly pass "self" rather than making it a language keyword mostly just gives the user an unnecessary opportunity to make mistakes.
Naked short selling is illegal
> borrow the 100 cows for one month and sell them for $1 each.

Who on earth is buying those cow for $1, if it is pretty obvious they are worth $0?!?!

By cows i mean GME, before the meme.
> GPL and AGPL are just as much used to "poison the well"

But it is also legitimately outside of the purpose as well... unlike the SSPL. The Linux kernel for example. No one has ever looked at the SSPL and said “I want to work on that project” unlike the the GPL, which I believe is the GP’s point.

> There is no one on the planet yet who has agreed that they will run a project under the SS Public License and be themselves bound by the SS Public License.
Nit: caveat venditor
China uses anal swabs to test for Covid-19
You gotta take the power back.
> it has a responsibility to avoid spreading Hateful propoganda

Maybe people have a responsibility to themselves to ascertain the truth themselves, without Big Brother telling them what to think, when to think it, and how to think about it.
I don't know why sibling poster is dead, it seems a fair question and I didn't know the answer so I've asked them and will update when I get a reply.

Edit: The person I asked said they wore their glasses some of the time but also spent some of the time without (when they were climbing in the rigging etc.)
I'm more worried about the retail investors that jumped on the bandwagon too late with their life savings. The ones that got in at the start will be fine or better than fine.
was there a double blind study proving the existence of cows in the first place? I don't want to be mislead.
For “hatespeech”
not for hedge funds.
Maybe some day people will acknowledge that the Universe isn't a pleasant place and that sometimes you're going to be exposed to unpleasant shit, and you need to cultivate some fortitude to deal with it.
It's an alternative to inheritance, which is the defining part of traditional OO.
Yes, started parsing the comments and updating the dashboard!
I think most of today's websites and social networks use fancy text. Copying and pasting fancy text into the web is even easier. Here http://symbols123.com/
>The failure rate of commercial nuclear power plants is almost [some number]

Where [some number] is very likely pulled out-of-a-hat. For decades nuclear got all the benefit of the doubt, and many 'incidents' were helpfully invisible in the media. (Ask France.) There was lots of helpful assurance that the natural environment was already radioactive anyway. In the US, comic books were handed out like candy in the 50s spelling out for enthusiastic Johnnies and Janes what a wonderful future was in store for them.

"The U.S. must lead by example and show that nuclear energy is necessary." Dear Dr. Chakraborty: We already did that. India must lead by example.
OO is applied for the wrong domains.

A typical web app with a database back-end is probably the worst offender.

Modelling your data with OO, fitting it somehow (ORM == OMG) into database tables and then use some annotation magic to turn those objects into JSON towards the frontend.
Nothing there makes any sense whatsoever.

I built several of those and used terrible ORMs.
They are hard to change. They are hard to reason about and they consume massive amounts of memory as each transaction creates fresh sets of objects - because we can't share data between threads simply - we throw those objects away again.

Gone is this whole ideal notion of objects being their own little agents, sending friendly messages between each other.

And the fact that message passing is not well-defined in a concurrent context in most OO-languages puts the icing on the cake. (i.e. objects can receive messages (i.e. calls) from any thread at any time and need to deal with it. Most of the OO code you wrote today cannot.
The Ex Ante Likelihood of Bubbles [pdf]
For those who don't know, Judge Alsup presided over many famous tech-related court cases. Judge Alsup is known to take no BS from any side, and shows a willingness to deep dive into a topic when a case calls for it.(eg. learn how to code).

Oracle v. Google

Uber-Waymo

DACA program

Many patent cases

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/federal-judges-retire-jo...

While judges may, of course, have personal reasons for retiring or semi-retiring at the beginning of Biden’s presidency, it’s safe to say, for the most part, that the timing of these judges’ departures isn’t coincidental: They wanted Biden to pick their replacements, not Trump.

“Congratulations on becoming our new president,” U.S. District Judge William Alsup wrote to Biden a day after he was inaugurated. “I feel it is time now for me to ‘go senior.’”
> On both Discord and Reddit, wallstreetbets users frequently refer to themselves collectively as “retards” and “autists,” and have been known to deploy the kinds of racial slurs and deliberately offensive language that have become commonplace in 4chan-style posting forums.

I read WSB daily for years and cannot recall a single usage of a racial slur. They definitely referred to themselves as autists/retards in a self-deprecating manner but that's hardly the same thing.
For “hate speech”.. Funny how that hate speech thing works
Check out pydantic. Best lib ever. I am a huge fan of attrs.
I wonder how much credibility his name adds in the short term. People might take it more seriously if it's backed by someone with a reputation.

In the longer term, success in the health space could add prestige to his name, ala the Nobel prize.
> The question is, what will we do?

You stop worrying about the boogiemen on Reddit and penalize the dimwitted hedge funds who shorted more than 100% of GameStop's stock.
For “hate speech”. Funny how that selective hate speech thing works and who it seems to benefit
That is not naked short selling. Naked short selling is when you sell a stock short without first borrowing it.

The parent to your comment describes someone buying a stock from someone who sold it short, and turning around and it selling it short themselves. This happens organically and is not "naked."

Beware the incredible amount of false and misleading information about this situation online. Things catch on in the zeitgeist and don't really get fact checked.
Aren't you scared about massive bubbles that would happen without short sellers? I don't agree with shady behavior from short sellers,
but I think it's kind of good to have the devils advocates in the market to fight against bubbles caused by the long side. And I don't know, it's all a gentleman's club, why only be angry at the short sellers? Or are they just a more easily exploited member of the establishment? (and not saying the comeuppance isn't warranted, I lean towards the side of the little guy in this)
> You seem to be equating "is moral" with "moves prices towards the fundamental value of the underlying asset", which is an interesting position to take

I didn't say anything about morality. This is a purely functional argument. When something is sold for its fundamental value, nobody loses. That's why its good for society for things to transact at their intrinsic value.

> That being said, if you're worried about pushing prices away from fundamental value, how about negative crude prices?

It was crude futures that were negative. Crude oil has storage costs. Those costs rarely overwhelm the value of the asset, but in particular circumstances they can. That is what happened when crude futures went negative. It seems illogical, but if you actually understand it, it all makes sense and fits neatly inside an intrinsic value narrative.
It’s time to get rid of Redux
Unrealized, but regardless will be a mind blowing return in any case. Then again, he did proselytize others to the position, so it makes sense given the similarly mind blowing popularity.
To your first question, yes and no. At least in the short term, yes. My previous Smart TV experience was a Sony from 2014. The "smart" experience was barely usable let alone ideal. I just plugged in other things - PS3 and then various Roku devices.

But a year ago I got a TCL Roku TV, and it's a pretty good experience. The one downside now is that it seems just a tiny bit slower than, say, a Roku 3. And of course no way to upgrade that. Down the line, that could be annoying. But it was also a 65" 4K TV with a pretty good picture all for $500. shrug In five years, I'll get a nicer screen and maybe a separate device, depending on the state of things. As a side note, I got a sound bar with wireless subwoofer and surround that uses HDMI ARC. So I never need a second remote, or a universal remote, or anything like that. It all... just works.

Anyway, built a small TV room for my spouse this fall, and we picked up a 40" TCL Roku TV. Just perfect for the situation. Easier to install, fewer wires, one remote. No complaints really. Perhaps if Roku goes the way of the dodo, and I want that TV screen to last longer, it could be annoying, assuming the "screen" part and the UI that lets me pick the inputs stopped working, I'd be out of luck, but that could be true of any TV. Of course, if updates were malicious and blocked those features, that would be nasty!
Yeah, I'm sure those people spamming racial and sexual slurs have something to teach us if we would just listen. /s
Try updating your browser. It's having some issues on older browsers such as Firefox 78.
And pray, kind sir, what exactly is "unusual" chatter?

The capitalists will abandon all rules once the "system" begins to work against them. A system they put in place.

So sure, >100% borrowing is legal, but god forbid people highlight the absurdity of the system by gaming it, then everything is "unusual" !
> The endgame is the destruction of Melvin Capital, and that's going to happen no matter what.

Sure. Then what? For all the other people, that is. Just plain crashed stock prices? An unfortunate lesson in counterparty risk as they try to extract their winnings from a bankrupt hedge fund?
HODLers also use emotion and ideology to keep from selling.

It’s decentralized motivation to coordinate!! :)

Someone would do well to inspire a cult following and a viral one at that... then it will attract people who just believe in the To the Moon rocket emojis
> You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome. We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can screenshot it you don't get to hang out with your friends anymore. Discord did us dirty and *I am not impressed with them destroying our community* instead of stepping in with the wrench we may have needed to fix things, especially after we got over 1,000 server boosts. That is pretty unethical.

Fair point.
You're missing the point completely. Short squeezes have nothing to do with pump and dumps
You have a great point. Browser UI elements are stuck in time and all the attention now is directed to things that Google can make money from (e.g. DRM, sandbox for rich apps/extensions, webrtc for their video call products, etc)

but your cited site is not a good advocacy of that.
Not even the most exalted UI framework fix the most obvious problems with those either. e.g. tables still won't hold the header and first column(s) while scrolling.

Most of the these elements does not help consuming information, like carousels. And any true UX designer abhor them all for the fallacy they are.
Yes. This is the piece people don't seem to understand. Bankruptcy doesn't ruin your life. It just makes it hard to get credit for seven years.
This doesn't seem like enough savings to justify paying a team to maintain it.
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People who would like to rent out cows for other people to sell, and then pay back.
I am disappointed that this is not about writing OO Python in point free style.
It doesn't help that one of the most recent ones to try was deplatformed as it was gaining many new users.
A coordinated effort by ISPs to ban a website will absolutely invite regulatory interest. If they can ban 4chan, why can't we make them ban [...]?